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"As long as you are feeling discomfort within anything, you're holding yourself in a vibration where all of the things that you have conjured, and all of the things that you have let the Universe know that you want, cannot flow to you."
"Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved."
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
"I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt"
"If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"
"And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me."
"Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me."
"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."
"The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want."
"Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it."
"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."
"I want my teammates to know I have their backs."
"I just want to be me and play golf."
"If you want to know the future, look at the past."
"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
"The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do."
"If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
"I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle."
"I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle"
